Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31398341-20170409101440/@comment-31398341-20170702141803

Disagree on Escavalier.

Mostly due to competition with Scizor. While it's true that Escavalier has more attack power than Scizor, Scizor is very effective in maintaining offensive momentum, like when predicting incoming fire types or any pokemon that Scizor cannot beat, it can use U-turn to change to the pokemon that can deal with them. To illustrate clearly : Scizor predicting incoming Heatran, use U-turn and change to water types. Not to mention U-turn is relatively powerful as well. While Escavalier suffers from low speed, Scizor has a usable speed and Technician boosted Bullet Punch (priority). Scizor has Roost as well.

Escavalier main niche is better bulk and Assault Vest set. Mostly, it is good for tanking (mostly special) hits and beat them back. However, lacking recovery move is a problem for tanks. In most aspects, I cannot see how it can match up with Scizor.